tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:/projects/shoveke/the-steamworld-chronicles-the-constantine-quest-pt/postsKickstarter: The Steamworld Chronicles - The Constantine Quest pt.12014-02-01T09:48:40-05:00tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/7355232014-02-01T09:48:40-05:002014-10-11T21:44:51-04:00hope springs eternal...<p>Greetings all you stout Steamworld supporters,</p><p>I have no one but myself to blame for the delay in shipment of the physical copies of the first issue of "The Steamworld Chronicles." My day job is taking nearly all of any available working time during the week and the time it is taking to get orders packed and shipped is daunting, to say the least.</p><p>The entire Steamworld team has been on me to get these out ASAP, and I am working dilligently to get these out to you.</p><p>As always, I hope that my failure to get the books shipped out in a timely manner will not sour you on the project as a whole and when you finally do have the finished product in hand, you will continue to support us in our ongoing adventures.</p><p>Many thanks for your continued patience.</p><p>--Steve</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/7038022013-12-24T10:38:00-05:002013-12-24T14:48:28-05:00Happy Holidays from all of us at The Steamworld Chronicles!<div class="template asset" contenteditable="false" data-id="1470663">
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tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/6891612013-12-09T12:46:25-05:002013-12-10T06:34:44-05:00Too late...update!!<p>Hello Steamworlders!</p><p>I hope this holiday season finds you in both good health and in good spirits.</p><p>First off, let me apologize for the lateness of shipping out your rewards and physical copies of issue #1. I will not make excuses based upon lack of free time because of my day job, although I sorta just did ;) I am just waiting on one more item to fulfill the rewards and all will be ready to ship. This will NOT hold up the shipment of books however. I have the shipping supplies arriving at my home tomorrow and will begin the task of packing up and shipping books out this week.</p><p>I will hopefully post some pics of the packing process this week. It will undoubtedly take a few days to get everything packed up and out, so stick with me for just a few more days and all should have copies of Issue #1 in your hot little hands!</p><p>In ongoing news, Issue #2 is moving right along in the pencils stage, I will pass along images as soon as I get them. Once we get a bunch done they will go to the inker and colorist so that they can be finished as we go , so that when it comes time to finish the pencils, hopefully at least 3/4 of the book will be completely finished and only need to be lettered. It will make the transition go much more smoothly. We will be kickstarting the second issue once we have the artwork finished so that, barring anything unforeseen, we hope to be able to ship Issue #2 out at the end of the Kickstarter campaign. (hoping that it is successful, of course ;)</p><p>Work continues on the script for the final issue and we hope to have updates about that soon as well.</p><p>Onward and upward!</p><p>Happy holidays to one and all!</p><p>--Steve</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/5561442013-07-31T22:05:58-04:002013-07-31T22:12:54-04:00The time has come (check your inboxes)This is quick update to all our Kickstarter backers. Your digital PDF of Issue #1 should be in your email inboxes.
We are really excited to (finally, I know) get this out to you. Your rewards will be following just as soon as we get the book printed, which will hopefully be in the few weeks. We are printing in the states, so there won't be that 8 week limbo as they are delivered from overseas.
All of us on the Steamworld crew hope you guys enjoy the book as much as enjoyed making it.
Issue #2 has already been started and we hope to have some artwork to show you very soon.
If any of you are comic reviewers and post reviews online, please let us know.
Of course any feedback here, as messages will be greatly appreciated as well.
Also any comic book reviewers with an active blog or website, please contact us for a review copy. Please include links with your request.
Thanks!!
--Steamworld Crewtag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/5175562013-06-22T08:30:50-04:002013-06-22T08:40:33-04:00Last call...SUNDAY 6/23 5:00 EST<p>Thanks for all your responses! We are incredible excited to finally have this project finished and ready to send to the printer. There are a few of you have still not responded to the KS surveys. </p><p>The deadline will be tomorrow at 5pm EST. After that those who haven't responded, will still have their rewards sent once they respond with their info, but this is the last chance to give us the name you want listed in the "Thank You" section. After the deadline, we will be pulling the names of backers who don't respond off of their KS accounts and just using what we have.</p><p>Thanks all! We really appreciate your continued patience and hope you like the book!</p><p>-Steamworld crew</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/5048912013-06-09T10:07:19-04:002013-12-07T19:16:13-05:00Surveys and updates!<p>Greetings to all you Steamworlders!</p><p>It's been a longer road than we expected, but we are really close now. After losing our colorist (TWICE!, for differing reasons) ALL the pages have been colored and are now are being lettered. We are including some page images here to show off the book to our backers and hopefully put your minds at ease that we HAVE indeed been working hard to get this done as quickly as possible.</p><p>IMPORTANT!! PLEASE READ BELOW!!</p><p>ALL of the "Steamworld" Backer surveys have been sent out and we need your responses as soon as possible so that as soon as it's is finished we can deliver the digital copies to ALL backers! PLEASE check the email you have connected to your Kickstarter rewards and respond as soon as possible THANKS!</p><p>Our new Colorist is a young man named Kote Carvajal. We got lucky to find him and secure his talent within our budget.</p><p>We hope you enjoy the 8 pages that follow and bear with us just a little bit longer, as we wrap up this first of three issues.</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/4384252013-03-26T21:59:25-04:002013-03-26T22:17:55-04:00Bumps in the roadHey everyone, just wanted to post an update to keep you all up to date with where we are.
As you all know, we originally had a delivery date of this month, March. Well, for many reasons I am going to outline here, we will not be making that deadline.
I apologize for this. I am one of the creators and one of the ones spearheading the overall project.
I think that the primary reason we're running late is, ultimately, lies at the feet of the fact that we had such a successful Kickstarter. By helping us achieve $3k OVER our intended goal, it allowed us to hire a real professional inker in Mark McKenna and that instantly put us behind, as we had to begin the inking process from the start again. I, as the original inker had finished almost 15 pages and had starts on the other 10 when we brought Mark aboard.
It was last minute, so Mark had some other jobs to finish before being able to fully commit to Steamworld, but he has steadily managed to fit chunks of our pages into his schedule and is now working solely on our pages in an effort to finish them as quickly as possible.
Our colorist has been in and out of town making his living doing what he does but will begin a long homestand this week and will be cranking out pages faster than you'd think possible, so we're about to see a big jump in the project towards it's final outcome.
Our current new goal is to have the book in hand by the end of April, so we can have copies ready for a signing we have scheduled on the Sunday after Free Comic Book Day on Long Island (if any of your are in the area, we'd love to have you come by and say hello) Mike and I will be there along with Walter Simonson and Mark McKenna at Grasshoppers Comics in Williston Park, NY
We are getting printer quotes and will be posting colors and the final cover art very soon.
We have a final script for issue #2 that Ben will be starting the pencils on imminently.
We appreciate your support and understanding as we tackle these final few obstacles to ensure we deliver the finest product we can to you. I wish we could get them out now, trust me, I'm dying to hear what you guys think.
It's close, folks, just a little longer I promise.
Thanks so much again,
--Stevetag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/4099732013-02-20T08:28:27-05:002013-02-20T08:38:23-05:00Getting there<p>Greetings steamworld supporters,</p><p>I know it's been a little while since we let you in on what's happening with the project, but have no fear!</p><p>Mark is inking like crazy and is set to be about halfway finished next week. He has been juggling several other commitments during this time, and is almost finished with them so he can commit to finishing Steamworld Chronicles #1 as quickly as possible. I'll post up some of Mark's inks here in the next day or so to tease you a little bit!</p><p>The first batch of pages will be going off to the colorist next week, so we'll have some of those pages to show you very soon.</p><p>We are really excited to finish this book up and get it out to you. we have just completed the script for issue #2 and Ben will be starting the pencils as soon as he wraps us his Kickstarter commissions.</p><p>The script for Issue #3 is started and will be waiting for Ben to roll into as soon as he's done with #2 (we plan to keep him busy for a while :)</p><p>Once we have Issue#1 fully completed and off to press, which means you will already have the PDF digital copy to read, we will be launching the Kickstarter for the second issue. We hope you will enjoy the first issue and continue the journey with us!</p><p>More to come soon!</p><p>Thanks again,</p><p>-- The Steamworld Team (Steve, Mike, Ben, Mark, Jeff and John)</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/3753902012-12-25T10:39:41-05:002012-12-25T10:57:29-05:00Happy Holidays to all! (plus a VERY exciting bit of news!)<p>Hello Everyone,</p><p>First of all I would just like to say Thanks again for helping make this project a reality. We would like to extend our warmest wishes to you and yours in this holiday season.</p><p>As far as the "bit of news" goes, well...it's a little bit of a bad news/good news situation. Or should I say, bad news/GREAT news? You decide.</p><p>Because of the amount of stuff I need to be handling right now, (writing the next part of Steamworld, in addition to another project I'm working on and the soon to be starting full-time job) I have had to fire myself as inker on the project.</p><p>BUT...(and now the great news, part)</p><p>Because of the AMAZING response and support we received in our KS campaign, we have been able to secure the inking services of legendary comics embellisher, Mark McKenna to ink the project for us. If for any reason you are unaware of Mark's pedigree and body of work, just jump over to Google right now and you'll see why this is a such an incredible addition to our project.</p><p>SO everyone knows, this will not effect your rewards in any way. If you are due to receive inked pages, then you just got a tremendous added bonus!</p><p>The ONLY thing this does effect is our timeline. Slightly. We are having Mark re-do all the pages I had already finished from the beginning so that the look of the finishes is consistent throughout. We are pretty sure this will add some time to our project timeline, but depending how fast Mark is, not too much. We will keep you updated as to our progress and have some new inked page images for you ASAP.</p><p>That'a all for now from Steamworld HQ, </p><p>Thanks again, </p><p>--The Steamworld crew</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/3632472012-12-05T16:43:59-05:002012-12-05T16:49:17-05:00Time to exhale....<p>Well, everyone. Thank you. we could not have gotten to this point in our project without you. All of your belief, interest and support have made this project a reality. Sure, we had the idea and the project, but YOU made it a reality.</p><p>We'll be keeping updates coming through this email system as well as the website. So you all can follow along with us on our journey, you've absolutely earned that right!</p><p><a href="http://www.steamworldchronicles.com" target="_blank">www.steamworldchronicles.com</a></p><p>So, without further ado...time to put our noses to the grindstone and get this puppy done.</p><p>Thanks again,</p><p>Steve, Mike, Ben, Jeff, and John</p>